of Lines and Rods

On Jan 29, 4:43*am, "Tom Nakashima" wrote:
"riverman" wrote in message

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Well, I tried it. Interesting experience. First, I weighed out
precisely 30m of my new 5 wt line, and discovered that it was just at
the very top of the 5wt range (8.6-9.5 g). That accounted for why it
cast on the 5wt rod so nicely...since I prefer shorter casts, a
heavier line will load the rod with less line out.

Then I weighed a new 4 wt line (same model: SA Mastery Series Trout
taper), and guess what? It also weighed out precisely at the top of
the 4wt range (7.4-8.2g). So at least I'm comfortably sure that this
particular model is weighted on the heavy side.

Then I went after the unknown lines. One of them that seemed to cast
fairly similar on both my 4wt and 5 wt rods weighed 8.8g, which put it
at the lower end of the 5 wts (kind of right between a 4wt and a 5wt
if you prefer heavier lines). Duh...that made sense.

Another, that I thought was a 5wt, but seemed to cast OK on my 6-7 wt
rod turned out to weigh 10.5g, which made it a middle-of-the-road 6
wt. The line I had been using on the 6-7 wt rod turned out to be a
middle-of-the-road 7 wt, which again made sense, and explained why I
felt that the 6wt line was a bit light for the rod.

I hvaen't made any headway on the sink-tip lines. That's for later.

Anyway, I've now made some labels for the lines and marked them as 5+
or 5-, for example, to distinguish the ones that are weighed heavy or
light for different situations.

So the weighing process is pretty good...far from exact, but for this
boy, it sure made a lot of things make sense.

--riverman

Since it's SA Mastery Series Trout DT line,
might try putting a mic to it and check diameter, then go down to your local
fly-shop and mic a new 4wt DT line and the 5wt as well.

btw: I also use the SA Mastery Series Trout DT (5wt) line and love it.
It's got a nice presentation taper for dry-flies...beautiful turn-overs.
-tom

The SA Trout lines are the ones that I know the weight of...they are
new and in the box. One of the unknown ones was a SA line, the bright
green one...cheaper end of the spectrum. I totally forget what brand
the other one was.

I agree that the Trout series is a nice line. Turns over like a dream,
and has no memory at all. That green SA line is like a slinky. The
next type I'm going to try is a triangle taper.

--riverman